Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...utility rates protected by his political power, his wealth feeding back to regenerate that power, Boss Roraback had the kind of friends and enemies that only strong men make. What Ohio's Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") Hanna did with the Republican Party nationally during the single Presidential generation of William McKinley, whipping Big Business to the Party treasury with fear of Bryan's silver money, cajoling it with protective tariffs and other favors, Boss Roraback did with controlled budgets, legislation favorable to industry, in Connecticut during eight gubernatorial terms. But public resentment against his dominance never rose very high...
...able to open a music shop and publishing house. At 23 he wrote his first important song, How Sweet Are the Roses, under the name of Alice Hawthorne. He followed it with such lyrics as What Is Home Without a Mother?, Rebecca at the Well, Motherless Kate, There Is Wealth for Honest Labor...
...mild spree and then, in a scene marked by its skilful reticence, say good-by at the train. Good shot: Lucy and Barkley accepting an invitation to try out a new car by a salesman who suspects that their modest clothes and quiet bearing are the insignia of wealth...
...Early this week, in a startling letter to Ohio's Robert Johns Bulkley—with copies to other Senators%#151U. S. Ambassador to Germany Wil- liam Edward Dodd wrote: ''There are individuals of great wealth [in the U. S.] who wish a dictatorship and are ready to help a Huey Long. There are politicians, some in the Senate, I have heard, who think that they may come into power like that of the European dictators. . . . One man, I have been told by personal friends, who owns nearly a billion dollars, is ready to support such a program...
...undergraduate body, and particularly to the many students who have studied under his direction. Not only an able teacher in the highest sense that the term can convey, but also the holder of an important position in the Federal Reserve System, Professor Williams brings the new graduate school a wealth of experience which fits him peculiarly well for his task...